ça

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ca"

Albanian

Pronoun

ça

1. what

Verb

ça

1. to break, split

Alternative forms

• çā (NW Gheg)

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin ecce ha. Compare French çà.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [ˈsa]
• Homophone: sa

Adverb

ça

1. (archaic) here; in this place

Derived terms

• ça i enllà
• ça i lla
• d'ençà
• deçà
• ençà

 

Further reading

• “ça” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “ça”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “ça” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ça” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Contraction of cela.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): [sɑ], [sɔ]

• audio (France)

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• audio (Quebec)

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• Homophones: çà, ç’a, sa

Pronoun

ça

1. (informal) that

   J’aimerais ça. ― I'd like that.

2. (informal) this

   Je veux ça. ― I want this.

3. it

   Ça va. ― It's okay.

4. used to indicate actions happening generally without specifying an agent, like on but with a greater suggestion of mass, generalized, unattributable, or confused action; people

   Partout ça criait, ça hurlait, ça se battait.

   There was shouting, screaming, fighting everywhere.

5. (Louisiana) they

Derived terms

• ça a été
• ça alors
• ça boom
• ça y est
• comme ça
• comme ci comme ça
• comment ça
• c’est ça
• rien que ça

 

Noun

ça m (uncountable)

1. (psychoanalysis) id

Further reading

• “ça”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
• Dictionary of Louisiana French: As Spoken in Cajun, Creole, and American Indian Communities (2009; →ISBN; →ISBN)

Salar

Alternative forms

• çay

Etymology

From Persian چای (čây), from Sinitic 茶 (chá).

Noun

ça (3rd person possessive [please provide], plural [please provide])

1. tea

References

• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “ça”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 306